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Trivia: Musical Terms
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1. A solo concert with or without accompaniment.
Clef
Partial
Concerto
Recital
2. A tempo having slow movement; restful at ease.
Leitmotif
Rococo
Choir
Adagio
3. Vocal composition written for three or more solo parts - usually without instrumental accompaniment.
Staccato
Octave
Recitative
Glee
4. Harsh - discordant - and lack of harmony. Also a chord that sounds incomplete until it resolves itself on a harmonious chord.
Scherzo
Intermezzo
Dissonance
Tessitura
5. Pertaining to the fugue - the overlapping of the same theme or motif by two or more voices a few beats apart.
Unison
Twelve-tone music
Partita
Stretto
6. To repeat a previous part of a composition generally after other music has been played.
Modes
Dissonance
Romantic
Reprise
7. Two or more voices or instruments playing the same note simultaneously.
Renaissance
Time Signature
Key signature
Unison
8. A musical composition written solely to improve technique. Often performed for artistic interest.
Etude
Grave
Chromatic scale
Prelude
9. A complex piece of music. Usually the first movement of the piece serving as the exposition - a development - or recapitulation.
Sonata form
Chant
Tone less
A cappella
10. A contrapuntal song written for at least three voices - usually without accompaniment.
Conductor
Madrigal
Voice
Serenade
11. A group of 4 instruments - two violins - a viola - and cello.
Fourth
Trill
Ensemble
String Quartet
12. Movement in music where the characteristics are crisp and direct.
Neoclassical
Coda
Scale
Grazioso
13. A group singing in unison.
Chorus
Atonal
Encore
Song cycle
14. A system of notation for stringed instruments. The notes are indicated by the finger positions.
Relative pitch
Parody
Tablature
Polytonality
15. In sheet music - an instruction to repeat the beginning of the piece before stopping on the final chord.
Quartet
Chromatic scale
Movement
Da Capo
16. Three note chords consisting of a root - third - and fifth.
Rondo
Polyphony
Harmony
Triad
17. One of two or more parts in polyphonic music. Voice refers to instrumental parts as well as the singing voice.
Fermata
Voice
Tone less
Legato
18. An instrumental lament with praise for the dead.
Elegy
Triplet
Verismo
Courante
19. A 19th century square dance written for 4 couples.
Quadrille
Whole-tone scale
Phrase
Trio
20. In sheet music - an instruction to repeat the beginning of the piece before stopping on the final chord.
Expressionism
Pitch
Da Capo
Recapitulation
21. A short light musical drama.
Virtuoso
Operetta
A cappella
Interlude
22. The interval between two notes. Two whole tones and one semitone make up the distance between the two notes.
Leitmotif
Fourth
Chromatic scale
Adagio
23. Initially an improvised cadence by a soloist; later becoming an elaborate and written out passage in an aria or concerto - featuring the skills of an instrumentalist or vocalist.
Exposition
Flat
Pizzicato
Cadenza
24. The interval between two notes. Three whole tones and one semitone make up the distance between the two notes.
Fifth
Sharp
Tempo
Form
25. The structure of a piece of music.
Glee
Musette
Form
Espressivo
26. The retuning of a stringed instrument in order to play notes below the ordinary range of the instrument or to produce an usual tone color.
Cavatina
Atonal
Tune
Scordatura
27. The raising and lowering a pitch of an instrument to produce the correct tone of a note.
Tuning
Modes
Ligature
Recitative
28. A repeating phrase that is played at the end of each verse in the song.
Resonance
Twelve-tone music
Refrain
Atonal
29. A period in history during the 18th and early 19th centuries where the focus shifted from the neoclassical style to an emotional - expressive - and imaginative style.
Romantic
Scale
Soprano
Opus
30. Movement or passage that concludes the musical composition.
Vibrato
Finale
Chord
Carol
31. Arranging a piece of music for an orchestra. Also - the study of music.
Register
Conductor
Orchestration
Chamber music
32. A set of six musicians who perform a composition written for six parts.
Rhythm
Triad
Part
Sextet
33. Atonal and violent style used as a means of evoking heightened emotions and states of mind.
Intonation
Parody
Expressionism
Obbligato
34. Written for 2 to 10 solo parts featuring one instrument to a part. Each part bears the same importance.
Recitative
Romantic
A cappella
Chamber music
35. The seventh note of the scale where there is a strong desire to resolve on the tonic.
Rondo
Notation
Leading note
Musette
36. Group of singers in a chorus.
Time Signature
Choir
Refrain
Part
37. 3 or 4 notes played simultaneously in harmony.
Rondo
Triad
Register
Chord
38. The seventh note of the scale where there is a strong desire to resolve on the tonic.
Cadenza
Concerto
Suite
Leading note
39. A direction in sheet music indicating the tempo is to be very fast.
Presto
Coda
Register
Carol
40. First developed in the 8th century - methods of writing music.
Unison
Cantata
Timbre
Notation
41. A chord comprised of three whole tones resulting in an augmented fourth or diminished fifth.
Deceptive cadence
Baroque
Tritone
Scherzo
42. Pertaining to the sonata form - a fast movement in triple time.
Scherzo
Requiem
Phrase
Accelerando
43. A contrapuntal song written for at least three voices - usually without accompaniment.
Progression
Opus
Madrigal
Parody
44. Originally an improvised cadence by a soloist. Later it became a written out passage to display performance skills of an instrumentalist or performer.
Chorale
Tremolo
Klangfarbenmelodie
Cadenza
45. The highest female voice.
Modulation
Soprano
Musette
Presto
46. Two or three melodic lines played at the same time.
Rigaudon
Atonal
Partita
Counterpoint
47. A loose collection of instrumental compositions.
Suite
Exposition
Triad
Tonic
48. Short detached notes - as opposed to legato.
Key signature
Major
Staccato
Form
49. Initially an improvised cadence by a soloist; later becoming an elaborate and written out passage in an aria or concerto - featuring the skills of an instrumentalist or vocalist.
Cadenza
Renaissance
Cantata
Key
50. Male singers who were castrated to preserve their alto and soprano vocal range.
Castrato
Glissando
Modes
Relative major and minor